Where: Gujarat, India (23.6° N, 69.0° E: paleocoordinates 27.6° S, 33.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Umia Member (Bhuj Formation), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)
• uppermost part of Umia Member
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. S. Das. 2002. Two new pleurotomariid (Gastropoda) species, including the largest Bathrotomaria, from the Berriasian (Early Cretaceous)of Kutch, western India. Cretaceous Research 23(1):99-109 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64623: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.09.2006
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Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Umiaites sp. Spath 1931 ammonite | |
Aulacosphinctes sp. ammonite | |
Virgatosphinctes sp. Uhlig 1910 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Opisthotrigonia retrorsa Kitchin 1903 clam |